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     THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN LONDON. 
     
     (From Blackicood’: Magazine.) 
     
    

    
     _'The labour ofLondon life is not only carried on by 
     
     day and all hours of the day, but by night and all hours 
     
     DIthe night :— 
     
    

    
     “Nocturno versantur manu, versantur diurno." 
     
    

    
     Letus glance, superficially and cursorily, at the in- 
     
     dustry ofa London twenty-four hours. Towards mid- 
     
     night, and by the time you have attained the luxurious 
     
     oblivion ofyour first sleep, your breakfast—nay, your 
     
     dinner and supper, of the coming day, are prepared ; two 
     
     or three hours before, thousands of your fellow-creatures 
     
     have been snatching hours from rest, to cart and pack 
     
     the vegetables which will form a portion of your princi- 
     
     pal meal; and, if you are wakeful, the ponderous 
     
     rumbling of waggon r wheels over the rocky pavement, 
     
     apprise you of this transit to the vast emporium of 
     
     Covent Garden—than which, no garden of ancient or of 
     
     modern times boasts earlier or riper fruits, or sooner 
     
     rifles the budding treasures of the spring. From the 
     
     north, droves of sheep, oxen and swine, directed by the 
     
    
   
   
    
     suburban neighbourhoods on their way to Smithfield, 
     
     where, long before dawn, they are safely penned, await- 
     
     ing the purchase of the salesmen of Leadenhall an 
     
     Newgate markets. I ’ 
     
     The river, in the dead hour of night, is alive with 
     
     'boats conveying every variety ofthe finny tribes to 
     
     Billingsgate; now are the early breakfast houses reaping 
     
     their harvest, the bustling host, in his shirt sleeves, con- 
     
     veying refreshment to his numerous customers; here the 
     
     shut sot, and belated debauchee, are compelled 
     
     to resort in conversation with the unfortunate and de- 
     
     graded ofthe other sex, to await the re-opening of their 
     
     customary haunts of dissipation; now the footstep of 
     
     the police-man, as he tramps slowly over his beat, awakes 
     
     the sluinbering echoes; every house is shrouded in 
     
     repose, and the city seems a city ofthe dead. All, soon 
     
     again, is noise, hustle, and confusion; the carts of 
     
     thousands of fishmongers, green-grocers, and victuallers, 
     
     rattle along the streets, taking up their stands in order- 
     
     dy array in the immediate vicinity of the respective 
     
     markets; loud is the noise of bargaining, chaffering, 
     
     and contention. In a little while, however, they have 
     
     completed their cargo for the day, and drive off; the 
     
     Waggons disappear, the markets are swept clean, and 
     
     no trace remains, save in the books of the salesman, of 
     
     the vast business that has been done, as it were, in a 
     
     moment. . 
     
     Five o’clock gives some little signs of life in the 
     
     vicinity of the hotels and coach-offices; a two-horse 
     
     stage, or railway “ bus,” rumbles off to catch the early 
     
     trains; the street retailers of fish, vegetables and.fruit 
     
     may be encountered, bearing on their heads their re- 
     
     spective) stocks in trade, to that quarter of the town 
     
    
   
   
    
     “saloop” are busy dispensing their penny cups at the 
     
     corners; and the gilded ball of St. Paul’s, lit up like a 
     
     ‘beacon by the earliest ~rays of the sun, while .all 
     
     ‘below is yet shrouded in night, indicates approaching 
     
     day. . 
     
    

    
     Six o'clock announces the beginning of the working 
     
     day, by the ringing ofthe bells of various manufactories 
     
     Now is the street crowded With the fustian-coated 
     
     artisan, his basket of tools in his hand; and the stalwart 
     
     Irish labourer, his short black pipe scenting the morning 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and to the suburbs, and the “busses” that came laden 
     
     to the city, and went empty away, now go out full and 
     
     return empty. Now eating begins in the West End, 
     
     and drinking in city taverns; now the coffee-houses 
     
     fill, and crowds gather round the doors of the theatres, 
     
     patiently awaiting for an hour or more the opening of 
     
     the doors: Hyde Park is now (if it be in the fashionable 
     
     season) in its glory; the eye is dazzled with the blaze 
     
     of opulence, beauty, and fashion, for at this hour is 
     
     the world of wealth and fashion more prominently 
     
     abroad. Nine o’clock and the shops begin to close, 
     
     save those ofthe cigar-dealers and gin-spinners, whose 
     
     business is now only about to begin : the streets swarm 
     
     with young men about town, and loose characters ofall 
     
     descriptions issue from their hiding-places, prowling 
     
     about in search of prey; now the shell-fish shops set 
     
     forth their crustaceous treasures in battle-array, fanci- 
     
     fully disposing their pawns and lobsters in concentripal 
     
     rows; the supper-houses display their niceties in their 
     
     windows. assailing the pocket through the appetite of 
     
     the eye. 
     
    

    
     About midnight the continuous roll of carriages in- 
     
     dicates the breaking up of the theatrical auditories, 
     
     while the streets are crowded with respectable persons 
     
     hastening to their houses; one o’clock all is shut up, 
     
     save the watering houses opposite the hackney coach 
     
     and cab stands, the subterranean singing-rooms, the (i 
     
     la mode beef houses, lobster taverns, and ham-shops; 
     
     at two the day may be said to end, and the nocturnal 
     
     industry with which we commenced our diary begins 
     
     over again. 
     
    

    
     Such is the routine, varied materially according to 
     
     the season of the year, ofa day of London life; such 
     
     days accumulated, number years, and in a few such years 
     
     —we are gone, and are seen no more! 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LETTER FROM THE REV. RICHARD HODGSON, EVENING 
     
     LECTURER OF ST. persn’s, conNitILL, AND CLASSICAL 
     
     MASTER iN KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON, TO THE REV. 
     
     JAMES DlXON, PRESIDENT OF THE WESLEYAN CONFE- 
     
     RENCE. 
     
    

    
     - King’s College, London, July, 1841. 
     
    

    
     REVEREND SIR,—I have taken the liberty ofenclosing 
     
     to you, in your oflicial capacity, as President of the Wes- 
     
     leyan-Methodist Conference, :1 copy of my pamphlet, 
     
     entitled, “ Wesleyan Methodism considered in relation 
     
     to the Church.” I can assure you that I have no other 
     
     object in view than to exhibit to both parties what I con- 
     
     ceive to be their real position, and their true interests; 
     
     and I do indulge a hope, by no means unreasonable, that 
     
     both parties, if they devote themselves with zeal and :im- 
     
     plicity to the study ofthis question, will make an effectual 
     
     progress towards attaining that “ unity of the spirit” 
     
     which is the “ bond ofperfection.” Every year of zea’ 
     
     lous co-operation and mutual assistance, (even in our 
     
     present limited spheres of action,) will serve to imbue 
     
     us more deeply with that spiritual unity which must pre- 
     
     cede every mere formal union ; and I trustthat, in this 
     
     period of transition, “ we may walk worthy of the voca- 
     
     tion wherewith we are called; with all lowliness and 
     
     nieekness, wiih long-sufl'ering, forbearing one another in 
     
     love, till .we all come in the unity of the faith into the 
     
     measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." 
     
    

    
     I have thought it unseemly that We who agree in all 
     
     the essential doctrines ofChristianity, “ one Spirit, one 
     
     Lord, one faith, one baptism,” holding the same symbols 
     
     of Christian faith, and the same precepts of Christian 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     :air with odours far different from those of Araby the 
     
     blest; the newspaper offices, busy during the night, 
     
     now “ let off’ their gass—the sub-editors and composi- 
     
     tors go home to bed, leaving the pressnien to complete 
     
     the labour of the night. Now even the smoky city 
     
     dooks' bright and clear, its silvery stream joining, asit 
     
     were, in the general repose; the morning air is soft and 
     
     balmy, and the caged throstle lark and liniict, cap- 
     
     aives though they be, carol sweet and melancholy 
     
     lays. ~ 
     
    

    
     There is an interregnum unti‘l eight; the shopkeeper 
     
     then begins his day, the porter taking down the shutters, 
     
     the boy sweeping out the shop, and the slipshod  pren- 
     
     tice lounging about the door; the principal comes in 
     
     from his country-box about nine; the asststants have 
     
     then breakfasted and dressed; ,and at ten the real 
     
     business of the day begins. 
     
    

    
     At ten, too, the stream oflife begins to set in city- 
     
     ways; the rich merchant from Hampstead and .Camber- 
     
     well dashes along in his well-appointed curricle; the 
     
     cashier, managing director, and principal accountant, 
     
     reaches his place of business comfortably seated in his 
     
     gig; clerks of all denominations foot it from Hackney, 
     
     Jslington, and Peckham Rye; the “ busses” are filled 
     
    
   
   
    
     . with a motley crew of all descriptions, from Pad— 
     
    
   
   
    
     dington, Piccadilly, Elephant and Castle, and Mile- 
     
     end. ‘ 
     
     From eleven till two the tide of population sets in 
     
     strongly city-ways; then, when the greater part of the 
     
     business in that quarter has been transacted, the West 
     
     'End tradesmen begin to open their eyes and look about 
     
     chem; although in Regent-street business is not at its 
     
     maximum until four or five o’clock, and soon after the 
     
     vcity is almost deserted. About two, all over London 
     
     "there is a lull; important business that brooks no delay, 
     
     must then be transacted—the vital business of dinner; 
     
     lfor an hour little or nothing is done, and no sound man 
     
     io'f'business expects to do anything: the governor .is at 
     
     "dinner, the cashier is at dinner, the book-keeper is at 
     
     dinner, the senior and junior clerks are at dinner ; and 
     
     abehold! perched on a stool, in a dark corner, the office- 
     
     'lfifiper is also taking a lesson in the “philosophy of 
     
     “mngy Dinner over, business recommences with the 
     
     ’ene'gy 0“ giants refreshed ; the streets, lanes, and 
     
     *Passages 3'9 blocked up with vehicles and men, press- 
     
     «‘gng forward as if life and death depended on their mak- 
     
     ‘nl wfy ; I'OW WW” 3 l"Oi'eigrier, at the top of Ludgate- 
     
     thi i, imagine that the livin mass about him was 
     
     .jlastening to some national fire, or important ceremony, 
     
     sinstead OngII’ig d’bOllt the ordinary business of every 
     
     “Shy. Abo'" 5” ° °'°°k_ ‘h‘i great business of the city 
     
     as totally at an end; the tide is then atide of ebb setting 
     
     «out through all the avenues of the town to thew’esgward 
     
    
   
   
    
     practice, should still fight “the battle ofthe Lord” under 
     
     different banners. I do consider this state of alienation 
     
     as unfavourable to the progress ofChristianity, as an ob- 
     
     struction to the fulfilment of the Christian’s prayer, 
     
     “Thy kingdom come.” Surely it cannot be but that 
     
     to: love God is compatible with “ love to our brethren ;” 
     
     or, rather, may not the one be considered as the measure 
     
     of the other? Having considered the subject carefully, 
     
     I have proposed no compromise which I do not believe 
     
     at the same time to be mutually honorable. We are 
     
     called upon not to sacrifice truth, but preconceived opi- 
     
     nion; not to effect a victory over the impossibilities of 
     
     circumstance, but over the infirmities of our judgment 
     
     and passions. And is not this a fitting sacrifice to be 
     
     offered up upon the altar of our Lord? 
     
    

    
     I have already submitted my considerations on the 
     
     subject to several Dignitaries of the Church of England. 
     
     I have on all occasions met with the greatest condescen- 
     
     sion; and I have heard, with great pleasure, the expres- 
     
     sion oftheir sympathy and regard towards the Wesleyan 
     
     Methodist I have no doubt that this expression cf 
     
     good feling will be reciprocated by the followers of John 
     
     Wesley; and upon this bond of mutual good feeling I 
     
     am content to rest the success of my cause, H Behold, 
     
     how good and how pleasant a_thing it is for brethren to 
     
     dwell together in unity! It is as the dew of Hermon, 
     
     and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of 
     
     Zion ; for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even 
     
     ‘life for evermore.” . I 
     
    

    
     Praying, my beloved brethren assembled, that ‘F Christ 
     
     may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted 
     
     and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend With 
     
     all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, 
     
     and height; and to know the love of Christ, which pas. 
     
     seth knowledge, that ye might be filled With all the ful- 
     
     nessof God; and that the Lord may make you to in- 
     
     crease and abound in love toward all _men, even as we 
     
     do towards you : Now unto him that is able to. do ex- 
     
     ceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, ac- 
     
     cording to the power that . worketh in us, unto him be 
     
     glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughont all ages, 
     
     world without end, Amen.” . 
     
    

    
     Believe me to remain, Rev. Sll'i 
     
     Your faithful friend and servant, 
     
     Rianim Honosos, Evening Lecturer. 51/0. 
     
     TO THE nsv. RICHARD HODGSON, EVENING LECTURER OF 
     
     ST. PETER’S, coitNiiiLL, ANi’) CLASSiCAL MASTER IN 
     
     ’ 0NDON. 
     
     KING 8 COLLEGE, L Manchester, August 12th, 1841. 
     
     REV. AND DEAR Sim—We beg to acknowledge the re- 
     
     ceipt of your must friendly and Christian letter, accom- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     anied with aco ~ of the truly catholic pamphlet enti- 
     
     iled “Wesleyanplththodism conSidered in relation to 
     
    
   
   
    
     URDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Church.” Your letter has been read to the Wes- 
     
     leyan Ministers now assembled in their Annual Confe- 
     
     rence, and has called forth an expression of affectionate 
     
     regard towards yourself, which we feel to be at once our 
     
     duty and delight to communicate to you. 
     
    

    
     ‘ The prayer which our Lord offered up in the imme- 
     
     diate prospect of his “ cross and passion," cannot fail to 
     
     administer perpetual consolation and hope to all who 
     
     seek the peace and prosperity of God’s Church on the 
     
     earth: " Neither prayI for these alone; but for them 
     
     also which shall believe on me through their word ; that 
     
     they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I 
     
     in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world 
     
     may believe that thou hast sent me.” We cannot doubt 
     
     that this prayer will at length be answered in all its ful- 
     
     ness and extent of meaning. 
     
    

    
     It is surely the imperative duty of all who name the 
     
     prime of Christ to labour that they may “ be perfectly 
     
     jomed together in the same mind and in the same judg- 
     
     ment ;” that they may “ keep the unity of the Spirit in 
     
     the bond of peace,” and that they may thus promote the 
     
     tri‘umphs'oftruth and mercy in this fallen world. 
     
    

    
     “Spiritual unity,” as we are with yourselfdeeply sen- 
     
     sible, “must precede every mere formal union.” We 
     
     cordially respond to this sentiment; and we unfeignedly 
     
     desire to cultivate such spiritual unity with “ all them 
     
     that love our Lord‘Jesus Christ in sincerity.” Many 
     
     difficulties may arise to prevent the attainment ofthal 
     
     particular object which you generously contemplate. 
     
     We are not unapprised of these difficulties; and we fear, 
     
     that we must regard them as at present ofa very formi- 
     
     dable character; but we would not willingly allow them 
     
     to abate or restrain that charity which “ beareth all 
     
     things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth 
     
     all things.” 
     
    

    
     Permit us, Rev. and Dear Sir, to hail you as a friend 
     
     and brother in our common Lord, and to give utterance 
     
     to~the unaffected desire of our hearts, that the spirit of 
     
     unity and love, which the God of all charity has been 
     
     pleased to impart to you, and to many other members of 
     
     the venerable Establishment ofthe country, may spread 
     
     yet more arid more, in all Christian communities, until 
     
     needless divisions and separations shall pass entirely 
     
     away, and all shall, in that way which the Lord may see 
     
     to be the best, become one in Christ Jesus. 
     
    

    
     May you personally and largely experience, that“ the 
     
     fruit of righteousness is sown in peace ofthem that make 
     
     peace l” And may you be an honored instrument in the 
     
     advancement of“ the excellency ofthe knowledge of 
     
     Christ Jesns our Lord,” through many years of useful and 
     
     happy ministerial service! - 
     
    
   
   
    
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     _ i. c't;e, Rev. and dear Sir, your affectionate brethren 
     
     in the kingom and patience of Jesus Christ. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Signed, in behalf of the Conference, 
     
     JAMES Dron, President. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MADAME LAFFRAGF..—-Tl’le trial of Madame Lafi'rage, 
     
     (whose former trial on a charge of poisoning her hus- 
     
     band, excited so much interest,) at Tulle, for the robbery 
     
     of Madame Léotaud’s diamonds, has been the prevail- 
     
     ing topic ofthe French press. The immediate facts 
     
     out of which the charge against Madame Laffrage arose 
     
     were these. On the 9th June, 1839, during a visit of 
     
     Madame Lafl'rage, then Mademoiselle Marie Capelle, at 
     
     the house of the Marquis de Nicolai, the father of 
     
     Madame Léotaud‘, there arose a conversation d-propos 
     
     to a friend’s marriage, concerning diamonds. Madame 
     
     Léotaud produced hers, and left them on the table in an 
     
     écrin when she went out; on returning they were safe; 
     
     and she locked them up securely in the écrin: they 
     
     were once more produced on the following day. Seven 
     
     days after, diamonds being again the subject of con- 
     
     versation, Madame Léotaud re-produced her écrin; 
     
     MademoiselleCapelle left the room, and on the écrin 
     
     being opened the diamonds were gone. M. Léotaud 
     
     applied straightway to the Police of Paris: on mention- 
     
     ing Marie Capelle as the niece ofa Madame Garat, they 
     
     reminded him that several robberies had occurred at 
     
     Madame Garat’s. M. Léotaud hereupon desisted in 
     
     his inquiries; but on the examinations made by the 
     
     Police after the murder of M. Laffrage, the diamonds 
     
     were discovered in that‘gentleman’s house, in abox 
     
     belonging to his wife. To the questions then put, 
     
     Madame Laffrage answered, that they were given her 
     
     by a gentleman whom she did not know; but the de- 
     
     fence she now offers is different. She and Madame 
     
     Léotaud, when the latter was still Mademoiselle Nicolai, 
     
     became acquainted with M. Clavet, the son of a school- 
     
     master, whom they met at church and in the street; 
     
     letters passed between them, but at length M. Clavet 
     
     went to Africa: Mademoiselle Nicolai, after marriage, 
     
     wishing to burn her letters and purchase silence of 
     
     Clavet,, employed Madame Laffrage to dispose ofthe 
     
     jewels in order to give him the money. Madame 
     
     Léotaud admits, that so much of this story is true as 
     
     relates to some trifling acquaintanceship between the 
     
     girls and M. Clavet, and his having received two notes 
     
     which were theirjoint production ; but she explains that 
     
     the affair was only a girlish joke. In order to establish 
     
     her defence, Madame Laffrage claimed to have the trial 
     
     deferred for twenty weeks, that M. Clavet might be 
     
     brought home from Guadalaxara, in Central Africa, and 
     
     his evidence taken'. The accusers declared that M. 
     
     Clavet left France before the time at which the 
     
     disappearance of the diamonds took place; that the 
     
     imputation respecting them is therefore calumnious; 
     
     and that the presence of Clavet is needless. It was de- 
     
     decided that the trial should proceed at least till the 
     
     accusing evidence should show the presence ofClavet 
     
     to be necessary. Upon this, Madame Lafl'rage said she 
     
     would make no defence; and she was subsequently al- 
     
     lowed to withdraw from Court. Judgment by default 
     
     was afterwards alloWed to go against her upon her is- 
     
     fusing to plead. On Saturday, the Court pronounced 
     
     Marie Capelle, widow Laflrage, guilty: but as the 
     
     punishment for her offence was imprisonment for life. 
     
     that sentence is merged in the similar sentence which 
     
     she is undergoing for the murder of her husband. She 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     was, however, ordered to restore the diamonds, and to 
     
     pay the 00MB Orthe action; for which the Leotaud fami- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     [No. 217. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ly, as civil prosecutors, are‘ responsible to the Govern- 
     
     ment. It was expected that Madame Laffrage would 
     
     appeal against the sentence. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CHINESE Sim.L.—-ln the art of engraving the Chinese 
     
     excel, the rapidity with which they carve their intricate 
     
     and complicated characters is really surprising, and not 
     
     to be imitated by European artists, in the same style of 
     
     execution, and at the same low prices. A London en- 
     
     graver was surprised when he learned, that what would 
     
     cost. sixty or eighty shillings in England, might be ac- 
     
     complished by a Chinese workman for halfa crown. In 
     
     seal engravings they are not behind our countrymen, and 
     
     in ivory and ebony, tortoise-shell and mother-of-pearl, 
     
     their carving surpasses that of most other artists. The 
     
     celebrated Chinese balls, one in the other, to the amount 
     
     of seven or nine, all exquisitely carved, have puzzled 
     
     many of our English friends, who have been at a loss 
     
     to know, whether they were cut out of a solid piece or 
     
     cunningly introduced by some imperceptible opening, 
     
     one within the other. There can be no doubt, however, 
     
     oftheir having been originally but one piece and cut un- 
     
     derneath from the various apertures, which the balls 
     
     contain, until one after another is dislodged and turned, 
     
     and then carved like the first. The ivory work-boxes 
     
     and fans commonly sold in Canton, exhibiting the vari- 
     
     ous figures standing out in very bold relief, may be con- 
     
     sidered as fair specimens of Chinese skill. In the useful 
     
     arts,the Chinese are by no means deficient; and in what 
     
     contributes to the necessaries, comforts, and even ele- 
     
     gancies of life, Show themselves to be as great adapts as 
     
     their neighbours. The manufacture of silk has been 
     
     long ago established among them; and thousands of 
     
     years ago, when the inhabitants of England were going 
     
     about with naked bodies, the very plebeians of China 
     
     were clothed in silk ; while the nobility vied. with 
     
     each other in the exhibition of gold and embroidery, not 
     
     much inferior to what they now display. In the fabled 
     
     days of the Yellow Emperor, at the commencement of 
     
     the Chinese monarchy, “the empress taught her sub- 
     
     jects to rear the silkworm, and to unwind the cocoons, 
     
     in order to make dresses; so that the people were ex- 
     
     empted from cold and chilblains.” When Confucius 
     
     arose, the Chinese had long been in the habit of 
     
     cultivating the silk worm, and the general rule then was, 
     
     for “ every family that possessed five acres ofground, to 
     
     plant the circumference with mullberry-trees, in order 
     
     that all above a certain age might be clothed in silk. 
     
     Down to the present age, the Chinese are still celebrated 
     
     for the abundance, variety and beauty of their silk fa- 
     
     brics, equalling in the richness of their colors and the 
     
     beauty of their embroidery any thing that can be manu- 
     
     factured in France or England, while the crapes of Chi- 
     
     na still surpass the produce of this western world. But 
     
     they are not only skilled in making, they are also attach. 
     
     ed to the wearing of gay apparel ; the Chinese are con- 
     
     fessedly a well clothed nation, and except where poverty 
     
     prevents, the people are seen attired in Silks and crapes, 
     
     as commonly as we appear in cloth and leather. Their 
     
     fashions differ indeed from ours, but the dress ofa Chi- 
     
     nese gentleman or lady is its elegant, in its way, as the 
     
     external appearance ofa modern belle or bean in Europe. - 
     
     —Mcdlmrst. 
     
    
   
   
    
     STATE or PUBLIC MORALS in ALGERIA.—It is painful 
     
     to say it, and yet it is but too true, that if the Jews in 
     
     Algiers are morally worse than the Mussulmen, the 
     
     Christians are even worse than the Jews ....... ..The Duke 
     
     of Curaman, on returning from Algiers on board a steam« 
     
     boat in which I happened to be, said, “ Algiers gave me 
     
     the impression of the inmates ofa bagnio at liberty." 
     
     This observation was so appropriate, that it struck all 
     
     who listened to him, insomuch that I have often heard it 
     
     repeated. For my part, I have seen men, who,»until 
     
     they came there, had led in Europe a tolerably regular 
     
     course of life, no doubt to avoid the censure of public 
     
     opinion, but who gave themselves up, on the. coast of 
     
     Africa, to every species of misconduct, under the con- 
     
     viction that they wei;e not seen by their former acquaint— 
     
     ance, and that those with, whom they now dwelt were 
     
     not a whit better than themselves. To acquire in a 
     
     shameful manner a fortune in Algeria, to be spent ho- 
     
     norably on their return to Europe, is the plan they have 
     
     traced out. Usury and illegitimate marriage are looked 
     
     upon as of no consequence, and persons guilty of both 
     
     are commonly met with, to the surprise of no one, in 
     
     what is termed good society ....... ..You may well under- 
     
     stand from all this whatlittle chance ofsuccess there 
     
     can be in this city for the ministers ofJesus Christ to 
     
     enlighten the Mussulmen. Everywhere else the life of 
     
     the isolated missionary pleads in behalf ofhis doctrine; 
     
     here, on the contrary, the lives the Christians lead are 
     
     enough to cause their faith to be despised. I once heard 
     
     a Mussulman express much astonishment on witnessing 
     
     an honorable act performed by a Frenchman, and he 
     
     kept repeating aloud, “ He is an honest man, and yet a 
     
     Christian !”—French Correspondent of the Record. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A HARD CASE.—A few days ago a somewhat whim- 
     
     sical circumstance occurred on the bank ofthe Clyde at 
     
     the public Green. A gentleman went into the river 
     
     to bathe, and, at the same time, a person, who had very 
     
     much the appearance of not being washed for this sea- 
     
     son at least, was plunging about in the water. In a 
     
     short time the latter moved suddenly to the bank, and, 
     
     arraying himself in the gentleman’s clothes, walked off 
     
     at a rapid rate across the Green, without casting even 
     
     one lingering look at the bundle of rags he had left be- 
     
     hind him, and which, for want of better, had a short time 
     
     before served him as clothing. By and by the smile- 
     
     man, who had had‘ a most delectable bath, left the water, 
     
     and hurried to his garments; but his astonishment may 
     
     be conceived, when, instead ofthe gay and comfortable‘ 
     
     clothing of which he had denuded himself, he found a 
     
     dirty tattered suit, scarcely worth Sixpence—a jacket . 
     
     miserably out at the elbows, alld a pair of trowsers so 
     
     ragged, that it would almost have required a chart to get 
     
     into them. He was firm to put on the wretched suit 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     which the kindness ofthe thief had left for his use, and 
     
     hastened into town with as much speed as might be, 
     
     most completely disguised from any friends he might 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     chance to meet by the novelty of his costume—Glasgow , 
     
     Argus.